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Monday, October 23, 2006

NYSE Short Interest, October 2006

These are the highlights of the short interest of stocks list on the NYSE for the period ending October 13 compared to September 15.

Largest Short Interest

AT&T 122.4 milion shares up 12.5 millionFord 100.4 million shares down 2.6 millionLucent 94.7 million shares down .6 millionQwest 78.3 million shares up 10.2 millionSprint 68.0 million shares up 10.4 millionTime Warn 67.5 million shares up 17.1 millionGM 63.8 million shares down .8 millionMcDonalds 60.5 million shares up 47.5 millionGE 52.2 million shares up 13.0 millionExxon 49.0 million shares down .4 millionDisney 47.1 million shares down 5.0 millionHalliburton 46.1 million shares up .2 millionVerizon 44.4 million shares up 3.8 millionPfizer 44.1 million shares down 12.1 million

Largest Increases in Share Short

McDonald's up 47.5 million sharesTime Warn up 17.1 million sharesCampbell up 13.0 million sharesGE up 13.0 million sharesATT up 12.5 million sharesSprint up 10.5 million sharesQwest up 10.1 million sharesAltria up 7.4 million shares

Largest Decreases in Share Short

Wachovia down 19.9 million sharesPfizer down 12.1 million sharesMotorola down 7 million sharesNorthfork down 7 million sharesBristol My down 6.8 million sharesJPMorgan down 6.1 million sharesAmeren down 5.7 million sharesBellSouth down 5.2 million sharesDisney down 5.0 million sharesAMD down 5.0 million shares